The companies that are part of the automotive and sustainable mobility cluster, Avia, aspire to achieve a moratorium on the Late Payment Law for the use of European funds. They assure that the regulations are “a difficulty, mainly when working on projects with multinationals” and they have asked the different groups with parliamentary representation in the Valencian Community to do so this Wednesday, whom they have summoned in Valencia after the celebration of their assembly general.
At the meeting, the members of the Avia board of directors have appealed for “a transition towards decarbonization that does not generate trauma, especially with the loss of jobs”. For this reason, they also ask for incentives for the purchase of electric vehicles, “aid that goes directly to the consumer, together with an increase in electrical infrastructures”, they have highlighted.
The meeting with the political formations has been chaired by the new president of the cluster, Francisco Segura, who thus takes over from Mónica Alegre, in office since 2018. In her speech, she also took the opportunity to demand a moratorium on the Late Payment Law for the use of European funds, “since many companies, due to the type of projects, cannot pay in less than 60 days, and this rule, which has only been established in Spain, limits the ability to maneuver.”
On the other hand, Alegre has appealed for speeding up the management of the Perte so that “no resources are lost and that all this financing reaches the projects”. Let us remember that the resignation of Ford, a member of Avia, from the Perte of the electric vehicle also meant the departure of other SMEs that accompanied the leading company. Now the sector is waiting for its second call, which will be more flexible towards companies and will include a line for batteries, as the commissioner for Perte, José MarÃa López, pointed out in Valencia a few weeks ago at Emobility .
The cluster has also claimed, already in a regional key, the financing of one million euros for the Mobility Innovation Valencia Another of the cluster’s claims has been that in the year 2021 the Minister of Sustainable Economy, Productive Sectors, Commerce and Work, Rafael Climent committed 1 million euros to Mobility Innovation Valencia, and in the end it was only 400,000 euros.
Segura has called for “explicit support for the MIV and to recover that investment, since the Mobility Innovation Valencia is the tool that brings together all the mobility agents of the Valencian Community and allocates all the support to projects that become a reality in the companies â€.
